Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office in two stove-heated rooms on the ground floor of an old apartment house in East Berlin. A Socialist mass meeting that he got Communist permission to hold back in 1954 was such a success that the People's Police have since rejected applications for anything bigger than back-room rallies. And though the party is officially tolerated, members have been squeezed out of factory jobs and often find it difficult to get apartments or pay increases. But from their neighbors the Socialists get quiet encouragement. "Our fellow workers, the vegetable woman, the people down the block...
...such interesting reading we are considering asking ministers of our acquaintance to base a Sunday sermon on it one day when there is a lull upon the congregation from an overdose of economics, labor statistics, soil conservation, politics and the lagging subscription campaign for a bigger church...
...year history, Mutual of Omaha has pioneered in many a new form of individual health and accident insurance, while making itself the largest such insurance company in the world. Last week Mutual, which has paid out more than $1 billion in benefits, took steps to grow even bigger. It launched a new hospital-surgical Senior Security Policy for people 65 and over. For $8.50 a month the Mutual policy will pay up to $1,600 in hospital or nursing-home costs, plus surgical fees. Already tried out in four states (Oklahoma, Louisiana, Texas and Georgia), the coverage is similar...
...communion. This idea binds together a sheaf of reflections on the nature, meanings, and ends of painting by TIME's Art Editor Alexander Eliot (Three Hundred Years of American Painting). Highly personal, aphoristic, poetic, Sight and Insight shuns critical pedantries in art to speak of bigger things-life and death, God and man, the wisdom of children, the power of dreams, love, fate, and the human soul...
Secretary Anderson wants Congress to rewrite the laws as soon as possible to close the loophole before it gets any bigger. He will probably win his point. Aside from a few coal men and quarry operators, who argue that their crushing and washing operations are so basic that they should be included, most businessmen agree that the allowance could rapidly become too much of a good thing...